Old Houses

We lived in many houses throughout my childhood 'though some were worse than others none of them were good Some had moldy odors that (at best) were most unpleasing others had thick coats of dust that left me coughing, wheezing One's floor had fallen out another's ceiling had caved in you can just imagine the predicament we were in We stewed through summer's swelter shivered, shook through winter's chill and every time it rained, we emptied pots and pans that filled You may wonder how we lived in such a state, deprived but it was 'normal' (all I knew) and somehow I survived!